Tag: sustainabilty
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November 26, 2009 10:03 AM EST --
With over $9 trillion lost in Western stock and housing markets since 2008, the global marketplace is in dire need of fresh customers. While U.S. retail sales remain shaky, domestic consumption . . .
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November 25, 2009 10:53 AM EST --
What if we are wrong about the importance of leadership for sustainable development (and anything else)?
Wait, please don't throw eggs at me. At least not yet.
I first began to get tired . . .
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August 04, 2009 10:25 AM EDT --
In last Friday's Wall Street Journal, a cancer patient wrote an impassioned entreaty to American health reformers . Her message: the system ain't broke so don't fix it. She places particular emphasis . . .
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July 10, 2009 10:05 AM EDT --
Climate change deniers have frequently pointed to regional weather patterns to provide irrefutable evidence against climate change. Back in January Gerald Warner of the Telegraph, for example, was quick . . .
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July 23, 2009 10:25 AM EDT --
I've written in a number of previous blogs that issues over fairness and conflicts between teaching and preaching would become ever more apparent in the lead-up to Copenhagen. Last week, during . . .
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October 09, 2009 10:18 AM EDT --
Climate change experts have documented an increase in the intensity of North Atlantic tropical cyclone. Predictions are being made that the rise in temperature will increase the intensity of hurricanes . . .
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October 27, 2009 11:54 AM EDT --
To be clear. I'm a R.E.G. - A Renewable Energy Gal - and proud of it. I've got a particular fondness for Renewable Energy Guys- men who can look at a wind turbine and know how its made, fix a solar . . .
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July 22, 2009 11:48 AM EDT --
It baffles me that so much attention is paid to where a wine comes from, how it was grown, aged, stored and this scrupulous attention to the like in what we eat has only begun to come about recently. . . .
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November 03, 2009 10:56 AM EST --
In an attempt to encourage sustainable investment, approximately 2.2 billion dollars were released by the United States treasury in new bonds. This move is being considered a great kick-start for the . . .
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July 17, 2009 11:06 AM EDT --
Today, some great news greeted me in the pages of the Guardian: the UK has halved its plastic bag consumption simply because consumers have said no .
From 2007 to 2009, plastic bag use has been . . .
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July 20, 2009 10:01 AM EDT --
This week the UK government announced that it would move forward with its plans to create four new 'eco-towns'. The details of these towns are fuzzy but the general idea is that these towns will be . . .
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August 28, 2009 12:10 PM EDT --
The other day I was chatting with a friend about how well the Economist has been covering climate change and particularly the international elements. He was surprised because, "it was an environmental . . .
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October 31, 2006 10:26 AM EST --
Last night was one of those that I needed to go through and I thank GOD for that. I was not only fight for my persecution but for the persecution of my family. As I prayed for deliverance and . . .
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July 17, 2009 11:10 AM EDT --
American baseball fans don't mind steroids. At least according to Sports Illustrated senior writer Frank Deford. In his NPR sports commentary this week , Deford describes baseball fans' seeming . . .
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July 22, 2009 11:50 AM EDT --
The weekend Financial Times has a fascinating article for anyone interested in the technology of social change: how termite structures are shaping the future of print-on-demand sustainable architecture. . . .
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July 23, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
Yesterday, NY Times columnist David Leonhardt argued that President Obama must convince Americans that the country's health care costs outweigh the benefits. After observing my grandmother struggle . . .
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August 05, 2009 12:02 PM EDT --
By now, we should all know that the Chinese character for 'crises' entails both 'danger' and 'opportunity'. And , thus, that the Financial Crisis was an 'opportunity'. An opportunity for what? - . . .
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August 10, 2009 11:42 AM EDT --
Recently, Jeff Trexler and I have been discussing the merits of used clothing quite a bit . So I guess it's not that surprising, with shopping on the brain, that I wandered into an Oxfam shop today . . .
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August 11, 2009 10:28 AM EDT --
Bring up low-carbon lifestyle choices for consumers, and skeptics will roll their eyes. There's no way one grain of sand can turn the catastrophic hourglass around, right?
How about 80 million grains . . .
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July 21, 2009 10:21 AM EDT --
Investing in water has been touted for a few years as the next great investable theme in sustainable finance. But "blue Gold" is not as catchy as "black gold", yes? No doubt as the population grows "up . . .
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